Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Rome)
Basilica di Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo in Via Aurelia | |
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Patronage : | Our Lady of Guadalupe |
Consecration day : | December 12, 1958 |
Rank: | Basilica minor |
Medal: | Legionaries of Christ (LC) |
Cardinal priest : | Juan Sandoval Íñiguez |
Parish: | Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo |
Address: | Via Aurelia 675 00165 Roma |
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Philippus ( Latin : Titulus Dominae Nostrae de Guadalupe et Sancti Philippi martyris in Via Aurelia ; Italian Basilica di Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo in Via Aurelia ) is a church in the Suburbi (suburb) "S.IX - Aurelio" in Rome ( Municipio Roma XIII. ). The church is the national church of the Mexicans and Latin Americans in Rome.
It is named after the Mexican national shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe . On Palm Sunday , April 3, 1955, Pope Pius XII blessed . the foundation stone that comes from the Tepeyac hill .
The church was built from 1955 to 1958 according to the design of the architect Gianni Mazzocca and consecrated on December 12, 1958 by Clemente Cardinal Micara , Vicar General of the Pope for the Diocese of Rome. It has been assigned to the parish church and the order of the Legionaries of Christ since September 22nd, 1960 . On January 15, 1991, Pope John Paul II appointed it a minor basilica and titular church of the Roman Catholic Church .
Title priest
- Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo , Archbishop of Guadalajara, title priest from 1991 to 1993
- Juan Cardinal Sandoval Íñiguez , Archbishop of Guadalajara, title priest since 1994
Web links
- Entry on Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e S. Filippo Martire on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- La basilica di Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e san Filippo martire, a Roma (Italian)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 38.3 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 59.9" E